Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-02
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

and gives way to the entry of the
old familiar jest about the oyster.
All Virginia pensioners OF the
Z. S. government who have hereto
tsre been drawing their pay from
the pension agent at Knoxville,
will draw it hereafter from the U.
S. pension agent in Washington.
AS a consequence of the platform
adopted by the Virginia Democrats,
the city of Richmond finds itself
unable to borrow dollar for munic.
ipal uses. The man who wants a
sharper comment on the folly and
faithlessness of old fashioned BOur-
bonlsm should write it himself.
A fall from a fouFth-story window
in Nebraska house failed to phase
one OF the loveliest of her sex. She
landed on her rubber hustle. The
elastic properties of the contrivauce
was so considerable as to project
the fragile and lovely form nearly
seventeen feet in midair. She will
recover.
1t Is a rare case that any crook
edness is ever developed in Ma
tlonal Bank in the Southern States.
An exception has occurred at Stump
ter, s. e., where G. E. Barlette,
cashier of the Sunpter National
Bank, turned up as defaulter to
the amount of $4,000 or $4,000,
and has skipped to Canada, taking
with him a bag of gold containing
$500. Specializing in cotton fu-
lures was the cause.
From the increase Of divorces it
would appear either that moral laws
are less REGARDED in this country or
that mormOnism IS gaining firmer
foOthoId. Marriage is too sacred a
bond TO be tempered with by the
laws CT man, and those who enter
into it should be made to know
that the compact is as binding as
it is possible for any human agree
ment to be. Let divorces become
much more prevalent and society
will be honeycombed with cOrrup-
ton and national decay and ruin
will follow. The press and the
pulpit can do much good by de-
nouncing the practice.
Here is a fact that is worth past
ing in the hat of every boy in the
land Out of twenty young men
who competed for a West Point
cadetship at Westfeld, Mass, ten
were rejected by the physician be-
cause they had "the tobacco heart"
by cigarette-smoking. They were
unfit for West Point service
And a youth with "tobaccO heart"
is unfit for any occupation which
requires persistent, steady effort
To put it in other words, he is fit
for no real use IN this busy world
of ours, and the sooner he goes to
his grave the better it will be for
him and for humanity in general
1t would not be amiss for the In
terstate Commission to give its at
tention to reckless and dangerous
railroading. Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, if lnaliena
BILE rights, ought not to be hazard
ed by corporations whose sole OBJ
iect is to make money. The lone
and short.haul controversy is no
so important as the question o
due care exercis ed by through line
to protect persons they contract t
carry to their destinations. Som
of our late accidents have beef
caused by neglect and lack Ofprop
or management, criminal in the eX
IRENE, and their frequent Tecul
renee is a disgrace to our State an
national government.
The industrial history Of thi
country for a century has been on
OF prosperity under Protection, an
commercial disaster under low Ia
ifs. Not even the decade from 1Sj
TO 1860, usually cited as a proof {
the contrary, has been an exceptlO
to this unvarying rule. \ brief bu
comprehensive summary of the II
suit Of the nine changes made frol
high TO law tariffs is given in a
article by Mr.. Charles L. Endicot
from the Labor Ledder, which v
reproduce elsewhere. We cor
mend it to those who are dazzle
By the congratulations Of Erect ira
ers and who forget that in econom
science, as in all other scientil
fields, facts are all.
There are only two varieties
tomatoes extant so far as color
concentrated and yellow. I'll
shapes are various. The yello
tomato, compared with the red,
scarce. 1t is a wholesome veg
table and will hereafter be mo
extensively cultivated. 1t max
a delicious preserve. Only a hs
century has elapsed since the
mato was grown IN green-hous
only, and the fruit never gre
larger than a small~sized bic
orynut and invariably glooe-sha
cd. 1t was then called Glove a
pie" Nowadays very few Peep
would be willing to do without
matoes. They are as popular
oysters.